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to rest, and she left him. Presently he heard a flock of wild geese 

 flying over his head. They flew past him ; but another flight came 

 and one of them said: "There lies a poor fellow!" The wild 

 goose struck Inik over the eyes with its wings, sajång: "Thou mayst 

 not open thine eyes, before thou comest home". 



When he came home, he saw a number of narwhals and white 

 Avhales going into the fjord. He stuck his harpoon into one of 

 them, and tied his grandmother as a float to the end of the har- 

 poon-line, so that the narwhal went away with her. 



Inik and his sister now went inland and came to a plain where 

 there were many houses. Further inland they came to some people 

 луЬо w^ere only shadows and had no anus. They did not eat, but 

 only sucked out the meat. When Inik and his sister entered their 

 house, they offered them food to eat; but they could not eat of it, 

 because the meat stank. 



Both Inik and his sister got married here. When Inik's wife 

 gave birth to a child that had an anus, the mother-in-law sang in 

 glee: "It has a lovely hole in its backside! It has a lovely hole 

 in its backside!". At last she herself got a hole in her backside 

 and died. 



These things came to pass up at Kialinek, where there are 

 many great plains. 



9. ARFERSIARTOK 



told bv Utuak. 



The only child of a married couple died. The parents were so 

 grieved thereat that the husband went away in the umiak leaving 

 his wife behind. While they Avere rowing, one of the women in 

 the boat said: "Why, you are gomg away and leaving her?" But the 

 others made as if thev did not hear it. The wdfe that had been 

 left behind alone, and who w^as pregnant, now went inland through 

 a large valley which led northwards. She continued in the same 

 direction till she caught sight of the sea and a big headland, at 

 the end of which there was an eminence which she took to be a 

 'guUery'. But when she drew- nearer, she perceived that it was 

 a stranded whale w^hich had been left Ij^ing high and dry by 

 the tide. 



On top of the whale was perched a gull, which was busy 

 pecking away at it. She went up to the whale, cut it in pieces, 

 and w^ent inland, carrying the flesh quite by herself. Here she built 



